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Canaan's flowings, or, A second part of milk & honey being another collation of…Canaans flovvings, or, A second part of milk & honey being another collation of…
Canaan's flowings, or, A second part of milk & honey being another collation of many Christian experiences, sayings, &c. : with an appendix called The heathen improved, or, The Gibeonites hewing of wood, and drawing of water for the sanctuary / by Ralph Venning.Canaans flovvings, or, A second part of milk & honey being another collation of many Christian experiences, sayings, &c. : with an appendix called The heathen improved, or, The Gibeonites hewing of wood, and drawing of water for the sanctuary / by Ralph Venning.
London: printed for John Rothwell, 1653
CANAANS Flowings: OR, More Milk and Honey. BEING Another Collation… › Century 3: The third Century.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
315. Am I become your enemy because I tell you the truth? What turn-coats are these? But awhile since they would have pulled out their eyes for Paul, and now they would have pulled out Pauls eyes, who told them the truth. Light is pleasant, yet offensive to sore eyes; honey is sweet, but it makes wounds to smart; truth is most wholesome, but distasteful to distempered palates: Lord, let me never hate them which tell me the ⟨p. 242⟩truth, nor the truth which they tell me.
315. Am I become your enemy because I tell you the truth? What turn-coats are these? But awhile since they would have pulled out their eyes for Paul, and now they would have pulled out Pauls eyes, who told them the truth. Light is pleasant, yet offensive to sore eyes; honey is sweet, but it makes wounds to smart; truth is most wholesome, but distasteful to distempered pallats: Lord, let me never hate them which tell me the ⟨p. 242⟩truth, nor the truth which they tell me.
316. A mistake.
The world hath always had thoughts of Religion clean contrary to what it is and doth. Most men are so mad as to think a Religious life madness; as if Religion did but make men melancholy and dull their spirits, and make them look wrinkled with sorrow and care long before they are wrinkled with age; as if it did but depress mens spirits, put an end to all their joys and pleasures, and incapacitate men to be great and glorious in this world: insomuch that he who makes conscience of his ways, is looked upon, but as one of God Almighty's fools. Alas, what a mistake is this! Can there be greater and better joy then rejoicing in the Lord, joy in the holy Ghost, unspeakable and full of glory? Can there be better cheer then a good conscience? If